Tony Robbins

And that day changed my life because my father left shortly thereafter and I really loved him.

He's the one who adopted me and I carry his name.

But it also, our life is determined, I think, by the meanings we give to things.

You know, is this the end or the beginning?

Is this person dissing me?

Are they coaching me?

Are they loving on me?

Whatever you decide controls your life.

And I was fortunate enough at that point that I came up with a different meaning.

We grew up in an environment I thought was a wealthy community.

It was very low middle class, to say the least.

And we were on the other side of the railroad tracks and it looked like nobody cared.

And nobody, my father kept saying, no one cares about anybody else.

But this was new evidence for me.

It was like, if a stranger who doesn't even want credit is delivering my family Thanksgiving dinner, then strangers do care.

And I need to care about strangers.

And so I promised myself that at 11 years old that someday I'd do this back and feed at least two families.

And then, you know, I grew up and I started studying patterns.

I started seeing that everything is a pattern.

You know, all of you know, as you're an investor, if you're a great CEO, if you're a great dancer and musician, it's really because you recognize patterns.